Sorry for the poem last night, I just didn’t feel like blogging and I figured that was an easy cop-out. Cheap, aren’t I? But I’m cheap with style – it was Shakespeare, after all. 🙂
So today’s been better than the past few have been. Still not stellar, but pretty peachy. It’s always nice to wake up and find cute emails waiting for me in my inbox. 😀
All in all, I had a nice day of talking with friends. And, I planned a bowling trip for this Friday with a few other friends. I’ve just been little Ms. Social Butterfly today, so that makes things happier for me. I always enjoy having people around, people to talk to, or people just to smile at and have them smile back at me.
I’ve been preparing for that design class I have to teach (I mentioned that a while back, I think – it’s for a youth group thingie). Yesterday afternoon I got extremely bored and thought it would be cool to build one of those elaborate architectural models for the class to demonstrate differences in style through something a little more interesting than just pictures. I went spelunking in the garage and found some forgotten tag board (like poster board, but thicker) and immediately set to work with blueprints. After the plans were drawn, I had to cut the tag board by hand with a sharp steak knife (I couldn’t find the exact-o knives). It was great fun! I listened to some classical music and made a huge mess in the basement. I then figured out how to make all the walls collapsable, so they could stand up, and then come all apart so I could carry it around in a portfolio case. Ta-da! Velcro. I used strips of velcro to hold everything up edge-to-edge. It’s hard to explain, so I’ll just take pictures once it’s all done.
The model is going to be of my Loft dream house – I have many dream houses for different periods of my life, depending on where I’ll be, etc. The Loft is what I would have in London while at school if I had all the money in the world and could blow it on this dream house. It’s a converted warehouse with amazing two-storey areas, and then an absolutely killer closet. I’ve come up with a closet system that will look like modern wood panelling – the cupboards are hidden in a room that will look like an art gallery! The shoe cabinet will be a center island with a white upholstered top (doubles as an ironing board), but the wooden structure itself opens up to reveal a shoe cabinet. Then, all around, wood panelling with pictures hanging in front. Once you know where the handles are hidden underneath the chair rail you just stick your hand under there, pull back the panelling, and snazzy recessed hinges reveal spacious and organized storage. Of course, I can’t show all this in detail in my tag board model, but wouldn’t that rule? It’d be the closet to end all closets.
And the master bedroom is to die for. Curved glass walls, amazing architectural elements, a bed (of course), and lots of other grand things. Ooo, and the bathroom – it has a 2 ton concrete tub. That may sound hideous, but Kohler has come up with an absolutely beautiful (and efficient!) bathtub. I won’t bother to explain it because I’m sure you’re all just laughing at me now, me and my elaborate day dreams of closets, ironing boards, and concrete. Just don’t even get me started on ceilings and staircases, I could go on for hours. 🙂
I’m too hyper to be tired again. My eyes and my body are ready for sleep, but my mind is moving at a mile a minute. I want to go back downstairs and finish my models. I’m also making little poster board room models for the kids in the class to play with. I’m going to talk for about 30-40 minutes about color, basics, design, history, etc, and then for the last half of the class I’m going to have them design a mini room. It’ll be great! I can cut out accessories from catalogues, print stuff out on the computer. I hope they get into it and won’t laugh at me and my rants about concrete and Sir John Soane’s genius. I could seriously blow those poor kids’ minds.
Mwahaha…
Okay, I let out an evil laugh, that’s definitely a sign that it’s time for bed. Good night!